IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Same Duffy

Socialist Challenge No. 167, 9 October 1980 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 177 words

The scan: sc-n167-oct-09-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 3 of the scan

Secondly, to action. The Duffy AUEW Blackpool must be wages Cold War; he ducks out of the fight on jobs and pay; Derek and democracy for the same reason - he doesn't want to fight the Tories.

But this means that the labour left must show that they will stand beside the AUEW rank and file in struggle when Duffy deserts them. This means a commitment to action now, not in 1984.

The kind of left we need means a break with the traditions of the last 50 years.

Is Benn giving moved farther to the left than ever before. But by drawing a line against using industrial muscle to unseat the government, he is ruling out the only perspective that can alliance between party and union rank and file needed to consummate his own victory.

These weaknesses show that strong revolutionary now more important than ever. It can give a real backbone to a class strugA personal view of Blackpool Callaghan, who had earlier in was lost. Yet it was a small

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